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Backbone Security's SARC Enters DoD Cyber Crime Challenge
Focus on New Research and Tools for Hidden Data Recovery
PRESS RELEASE
August 10, 2006
FAIRMONT, WV - Backbone Security's Steganography Analysis and Research Center will
participate in the Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) Challenge. This competition
involves the identification and recovery of digital data that has been hidden or
damaged. "They will be dealing with all of the things we encounter to obfuscate
data," said James Christy, director of the Defense Cyber Crime Institute. "We’re
trying to stimulate some research into tools and processes" for data recovery. The
challenge being issued will be to extract data that has been hidden or is on damaged
media such as floppies, CDs and DVDs. The challenge will include steganography,
password cracking, and image analysis.
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on the DC3 Challenge.
About the SARC - The SARC is a Center of Excellence in digital steganography research and development within Backbone Security. The SARC has established the worlds largest commercially available repository of digital steganography applications, fingerprints, and signatures and has developed industry leading computer forensics and network security steganalysis tools for detecting and extracting information hidden with digital steganography applications.
About Backbone Security - In addition to the world class digital steganography research and development conducted in the SARC, Backbone is an Approved Scanning Vender (ASV) certified by the Payment Card Industry-(PCI) Security Standards Council to conduct automated PCI Data Security Standard compliance assessments with a One-Stop Scanning Solution.